Were just a few miles off shore, but I cant tell you just where. This is partly because I dont know. Joe Loomis says were comin into London, but Angus MacKenzie, the skotch fello, says it aint London. He thinks its Paris. I dont think so though cause if it was youd see the Ethel Tower. You want to be careful when you address letters to me. If you address me too plain there liable to get to me and you cant tell who might be lookin. About all you can say on the address as far as I can find out is Bill Smith, A. E. F., which means Am Expecting Flowers. I got to quit now cause were gettin near shore and the Sanitary Officer ast me to help him sweep out the boat when the other fellos is gone. Of course I said I would. Obligin. Thats me all over, Mable. As soon as I get ashore Im going to buy one of them John Brown belts you here so much about. I dont know when Ill be able to write to you again cause I understand theres a battle on now so I guess Ill be pretty busy for some time to come. Yours till I rite again, _Bill_. [Illustration: "THE TAILOR MUST HAVE BEEN A BOILER MAKER ONCE"] MABLE TO BILL _Dearest William_: Your letter received and contents noted. Through Spiritual Channels you have been with me ever since the momentous day we parted, and all I can say is, "May God in His infinite mercy watch over and take care of you, until you have been delivered safely into my arms." Ever Thine, _Mable_. P.S.--_Bill_: Am going round with a new swell John and he writ this fer me. Itll make the fellos think Im a swell dame when you show it to them. Tear off this p. s. part. What's the matter, are you broke? You dont put no more stamps on your letters. Rite again. Yours as long as you stay away, _Mable_. DERE MABLE LOVE LETTERS OF A ROOKIE By Lieut. EDWARD STREETER The best selling book of 1918, 550,000 in 8 months. For genuine humor nothing written in recent years surpasses these letters from a "simple soldier" to his best girl. Read them--and live with the rookie through all his perplexities, through all his amusements, through all his work, live with him and laugh with him--and at him! With 35 illustrations by Corp. "BILL" BRECK Boards, 12mo, net 75c _The Navy "Dere Mable"_ BILTMORE OSWALD The Diary of a Hapless Recruit By J. THORNE SMITH, Jr., C.B.M., U.S.N.R.F. This book does for the Navy fledgling what DERE MABLE does for the rookie of the Army. It is the veracious record of the haps and mishaps of a verdant land-lubber plunged into a whirl of unfamiliar duties at Pelham Bay, as told by a recruit who has been through the mill. His experience are one long riot of laughter--no one with a son or a brother or a sweetheart in the Service will want to miss it and no one who is a recruit himself can afford to miss it. With 31 illustrations by Dick Dorgan, U.S.N.R.F. Boards, 12mo, uniform with DERE MABLE, net 75c. Publishers FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY New York READ AND LAUGH! _Dere Mable_